When Lt. Col. Michael Zacchea left Iraq in 2005, he was torn. His yearlong mission to train an Iraqi Army battalion had left him wounded and emotionally drained, and he was eager to go. But leaving Iraq also meant leaving Jack, his Iraqi interpreter, to face an insurgency that has made a point of brutalizing those who help the Americans.
ABC's World News with Charles Gibson spoke with IAVA Member Veteran Mike Zacchea for this segment on the recently-released RAND study about the health of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and his personal struggle with PTSD.
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